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CEFC extends investment with P2P lender RateSetter by 18 months

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has extended its investment with peer-to-peer lender RateSetter for the finance of energy efficient and renewable energy products. RateSetter is the CEFC's first investment in a peer-to-peer lending platform. ...

ASX adds social license to operate, TCFD to corporate governance guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... Corporate Governance Council has proposed a further evolution to its recommendations for how listed companies disclose environmental and social sustainability risks, including social license to operate and greater guidance on carbon risk. Louise Davidson ...

CEFC provides finance to boost energy rating for Melbourne hotel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has made a $39 million investment to help boost the energy rating at a hotel being developed by the Pro-invest Group. Ian Learmonth, CEO, Clean Energy Finance Corporation The Holiday Inn Express at Southbank ...

NZ Super Fund invests US$65 million in Rubicon Global

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... responsible investment, said Michael Allegretti, Rubicon's SVP strategic initiatives. "We share their belief that environmental, social and governance factors are material to long-term financial returns and look forward to adding value to the Fund."

Regnan research finds correlation between company performance, conduct culture

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... extract of research conducted by Dr Darren Lee to analyse if there is a correlation between Regnan's scores across environmental, social and governance factors and the performance of ASX200 companies between December 2007 and December 2016. "The testing ...

Ausbil outlines 2017 engagement activities in annual report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... Ausbil Investment Management has engaged with companies on human rights in supply chains, climate change, improved environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure, and corporate governance. Mans Carlsson-Sweeny, Ausbil The fund has issued its annual ...

SSGA launches State Street Low Carbon ESG International Equities Index Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018  |  NEWS
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) has evolved one of its international equities indices to reduce carbon emissions and reserves intensity by 50%. Susan Darroch, head of Global Equity BetaSolutions, Asia ex Japan, State Street Global Advisors The State ...

Improved disclosure in fashion supply chain: Baptist World Aid Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... the report noted. For the first time, the report also included preliminary data on the global fashion industry's environmental performance. Gershon Nimbalker discussed human rights in the supply chain at a 2016 panel moderated by The Sustainability R ...

ESG analysis important to emerging market credit: Insight Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis is an important part of credit analysis for emerging market debt, according to Insight Investment. Insight Investment, a $1.012 trillion global asset manager owned by BNY Mellon, notes that they integrate ...

Rising importance of sustainability in the commercial real estate industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... numbers and looking at the financial performance of an organisation. Rather, they are increasingly also factoring in environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures as a critical way to measure risk and the drivers of a company's financial performance. ...